LindseyN

Thanks for the replies everyone! aakupaku and PammyDQ, did you guys do any benchmarking for performing your antibody ID's every 8/14 days? Just trying to get an idea of how many hospitals do this. Thanks!

She did receive Rhogam because she was pregnant.

That's what we currently do (run selected panel cells for a previously identified antibody). But even that seems redundant if we know that patient has not been transfused.

So are you saying that if you have a positive antibody screen and you ID a specific antibody you do not perform a full antibody ID if you get a new sample in 3 days? We specifically had a case where a woman receive Rhogam so she had a postive antibody screen due to passive D and she was in house being drawn every 3 days. She was not being transfused so it seems a waste to perform an antibody identification each time.

I work in a Level I trauma hospital. Our massive transfusion protocol must be initiated by the MD (usually the trauma surgeon in the ED). We sometimes will call and question if they are taking alot of RBC's without plasma products, but ultimately the doctor has to make the call.

When you have a patient that is in-house, not getting transfused but having Type and Screens performed every 3 days how often to you perform the Antibody ID? Is it necessary to re-identify the antibody with every specimen if we know that patient is not getting transfused?